Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes
May 2–May 14, 2025
A celebration of one of the most significant cinematic partnerships of the twentieth century, Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes, focuses on Gena Rowlands’s performances in six groundbreaking independent films written and directed by John Cassavetes, her husband of thirty-five years.
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John Cassavetes: Love Streams, 1984
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John Cassavetes: A Woman Under the Influence, 1974
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John Cassavetes: Minnie and Moskowitz, 1971
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
United States, 197435mm Archival Print
Friday, May 2 7:00 PMView DetailsJohn Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family, with Gena Rowlands in an Oscar-nominated performance as a housewife on the verge.
Faces
John Cassavetes
United States, 196835mm Archival Print
Sunday, May 4 7:00 PMView DetailsGena Rowlands, John Marley, and Seymour Cassel star in this unflinching nightlong journey through a marriage on the rocks, a film “against all people that know and for people that just feel” (John Cassavetes).
Minnie and Moskowitz
John Cassavetes
United States, 1971Wednesday, May 7 7:00 PMView DetailsJohn Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.
Love Streams
John Cassavetes
United States, 1984BAMPFA Collection
Friday, May 9 7:00 PMView DetailsJohn Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands star in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. “A mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life” (New Yorker).
Gloria
John Cassavetes
United States, 1980Sunday, May 11 6:00 PMView DetailsA former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).
Opening Night
John Cassavetes
United States, 1977Wednesday, May 14 7:00 PMView DetailsJohn Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes’s most cleverly constructed film” (New Yorker).